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"The personal identity literature is fragmented. There is a literature on the normative topic of 'what matters in survival'. And there is a separate literature on the metaphysics of persons. But in Self and Identity, Trenton Merricks shows that some important claims about personal ide...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merricks, Trenton (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, an imprint of Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Self.
Ego
Identité.
Moi (Psychologie)
identity.
Self
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What Matters in Survival. Appropriate First-Personal Anticipation and Appropriate Future-Directed Self-Interested Concern
  • My Answer to the What Question
  • Consciousness and Survival
  • What Matters to You with Regard to the Future
  • Conclusion
  • On the Sufficiency of Personal Identity. My Answer to the Why Question
  • More on the Metaphysics of Persistence
  • Not the Criterion of Personal Identity over Time
  • An Unanswered Question
  • Conclusion
  • On the Necessity of Personal Identity. An Argument for the Necessity of Personal Identity
  • Parfit's Argument against the Necessity of Personal Identity
  • Parfit's Argument, Stage Theory, and Perdurance
  • Parfit's Argument and Endurance
  • Psychological Connectedness and Psychological Continuity
  • Conclusion
  • The Same Self. Three Selfers
  • First-Personal Access to a Point of View
  • The Same Self and Numerical Identity
  • Growing Up
  • Other Transformations
  • Conclusion
  • The Same Self-Narrative. The Self-Narrative Account
  • On the Necessity of Personal Identity. An Argument for the Necessity of Personal Identity
  • Parfit's Argument against the Necessity of Personal Identity
  • Parfit's Argument, Stage Theory, and Perdurance
  • Parfit's Argument and Endurance
  • Psychological Connectedness and Psychological Continuity
  • Conclusion
  • The Same Self. Three Selfers
  • First-Personal Access to a Point of View
  • The Same Self and Numerical Identity
  • Growing Up
  • Other Transformations
  • Conclusion
  • The Same Self-Narrative. The Self-Narrative Account
  • The Same Self-Narrative and the Same Self
  • The Same Self-Narrative and Numerical Identity
  • Growing Up Redux
  • Other Changes in Self-Narrative
  • Other Work for Self-Narrative and the Same Self
  • Conclusion
  • Agential Continuity and Narrative Continuity. The Agential Continuity Account
  • The Narrative Continuity Account
  • Agential Continuity, Narrative Continuity, and Numerical Identity
  • Some Significant Transformations
  • Other Work for Agential Continuity and Narrative Continuity
  • More on Psychological Connectedness and Psychological Continuity
  • Conclusion
  • The Hope of Glory. The Hope of Survival
  • The Hope of Transformation
  • The Hope and Psychological Continuity
  • Survival Does Not Come in Degrees
  • The Tedium Objection
  • The Irrationality Objection
  • Conclusion.